Prisoner abuse at the Garden
Young Republican Kicks Female Protester , reports Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft:
Update: I received an email purportedly identifying the protester and forwarded it to Jen Maxfield, the reporter in the WABC video. Hopefully, the email will reach her. I will leave it to their investigative reporting staff to determine if its accurate.
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Watch this ABC news video of a young Republican supporter kicking a female protester inside Madison Square Garden as she was lying on the ground being held by three secret service agents. The protesters were arrested. The young Republican was not. A search is on for his identity. Have you seen him?
Here's the ABC news viedo of an unidentified Young Republican kicking a protester pinned to the ground. [Best viewed in Netscape]
Criminologist Mark Kleiman remarks:
Kicking with a shod foot counts as assault with a deadly weapon in most states, though I don't know if New York is among them. About a year upstate would do this guy some good, don't you think?
One wonders why the security conscious Republicans didn't apprehend the jack booted young man on the spot.
Thanks for publicizing this. It's Jeralyn though, not Jane.
Posted by: TalkLeft | September 06, 2004 at 12:35 PM
My pleasure. Thank you for calling the story to my attention. Sorry about the misspelling. It's fixed now.
Posted by: Lindsay Beyerstein | September 06, 2004 at 12:38 PM